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~starbreaker

I've been there, and I've found that the only why to deal with it is with a firm "No FOMO" policy. I stop all apps from chiming and vibrating, and check for notifications at *my* convenience. I check in whenever I finish a task, or if I think a task will take longer than expected. I block out time in Outlook so people know not to try to drag me into meetings. I'm available at 9:00am in the morning, and cease to be available between 5:00pm and 6:00pm depending on whether I got to take an hour for lunch.

Once I'm off for the day, I turn my company-issued laptop and my phone OFF. If something comes up after hours, tough shit; I never agreed to be on-call, I get my work done in *less than* 40 hours a week (sometimes less than 10 hours a week), and I don't get paid nearly enough to have work intruding upon my private life at odd hours. If something comes up overnight, I'll deal with it in the morning because I make CRUD applications for state governments. Nobody is going to die if a bug in prod that shows up at zero dark thirty doesn't get fixed by nine the next day.

Especially if the bug in prod is a form field that doesn't look exactly the same in IE11 as it does in Chrome.

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~cadence wrote (thread):

Adding on to this I hide the notification bar on my phone which means the app icons don't sit there staring at me all day luring me into pulling down the shade. Now I pull it down when I want to, not when I'm in the middle of some other task. It's small but it's definitely helped me.

You might want to read solderpunk's series on computing with focus, it seems relevant here. gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/solderpunk/gemlog/progress-toward-offline-first.gmi